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  • Exclusive: Secret Memo-Send to Be Tortured
    31 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Michael Isikoff
    Aug. 8, 2005 issue - An FBI agent warned superiors in a memo three years ago that U.S. officials who discussed plans to ship terror suspects to foreign nations that practice torture could be prosecuted for conspiring to violate U.S. law, according to a copy of the memo obtained by NEWSWEEK. The strongly worded memo, written by an FBI supervisor then assigned to Guantanamo, is the latest in a series of documents that have recently surfaced reflecting unease among some (…)

  • SAUDI AND NIGERIA IN THE CROSSHAIRS
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Human Rights Watch is calling on Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to pardon three jailed advocates of peaceful reform and urging President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria to “show the world that he is serious about pursuing justice,” and “ensure that police torturers are held accountable for their crimes.”
    In Saudi Arabia, an appellate court in Riyadh upheld harsh prison terms of between six and nine years for the three after they attempted to circulate a petition calling (…)

  • Darker Purpose
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last week, we wrote of the Bush Faction’s increasingly successful drive to establish the principle of unlimited presidential authority — beyond the reach of any law or constitutional restriction — as the new foundation of a militarist American state. This relentless push toward autocracy gained even more strength in recent days, in two cases centering on what has emerged as the very core of President George W. Bush’s authoritarian philosophy: torture.
    Vice President Dick Cheney was (…)

  • Bush torture policies: Suffer the little children...
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Via Scotland’s Sunday Herald:
    It was early last October that Kasim Mehaddi Hilas says he witnessed the rape of a boy prisoner aged about 15 in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets," he said in a statement given to investigators probing prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib. "Then, when I heard the screaming I climbed the door... and I saw [the soldier’s name is deleted] who was wearing a military uniform."
    In another (…)

  • Habeas Legislation is Unconstitutional, Should be Rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee
    29 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee today has begun to consider legislation that would strip federal courts of their jurisdiction and take away defendant’s safeguards against being wrongfully convicted and even executed. The committee will continue to consider this legislation after the August recess. The American Civil Liberties Union opposes this bill, saying it unconstitutionally violates the doctrine of Separation of Powers and threatens the independence of the federal judiciary. (…)

  • Government Releases New Documents Detailing Torture at Guantánamo Bay - View Here
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pentagon Still Keeping Information from Public, ACLU Charges
    NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union today released files obtained from the Defense Department revealing new details on investigations into abuse at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center. The files also appear to indicate a rift between personnel at the base over interrogation techniques.
    "These new documents provide vivid descriptions of how interrogation techniques approved by Rumsfeld constituted serious abuse in some (…)

  • From Iran to the USA: Time to End the Death Penalty!
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Vincent Fischer
    “Religious killing shows man at his most depraved; for in this act he destroys the beauty of his dream by pretending to divine power” (My Brother Death, Sulzberger, Carl).
    Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, were hanged publicly on July 19, 2005 in the city of Mashhad, Iran. http://www.beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2005/07/2999.shtml
    The photographs are nauseating. Looking at the pictures of the condemned teenagers, it is easy to fall into despair. In the remaining (…)

  • Witnesses Say Army Dogs Bit Detainees
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Witnesses Say Army Dogs Bit Detainees
    By DAVID DISHNEAU
    FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - Military dogs bit at least two detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, one severely enough to require stitches, witnesses testified Tuesday at a pretrial hearing for two Army dog handlers.
    The unmuzzled dogs were also used to terrify inmates at the direction of the highest-ranking military intelligence officer at the prison, one witness said.
    The allegations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and the surfacing (…)

  • Guantanamo Inmates Declare Hunger Strike
    22 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Guantanamo Inmates Declare Hunger Strike
    By JOHN J. LUMPKIN
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Some 50 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have declared they are on a hunger strike, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.
    They went on strike three days ago, spokesman Bryan Whitman said. Some have already begun eating again, he said. The spokesman said he did not know why they went on strike and said the health of the striking detainees is being monitored.
    The Pentagon’s version of this incident contrasted (…)

  • Art of War : Abu Ghraib
    21 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)